Project Manager

Steven E. Mossige

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Proven Senior Project Manager

Helping Companies Translate Their Business Goals to Reality

Project Management Expertise: Successfully Managed Multiple Concurrent Capital Equipment Projects, Equipment projects from Conceptualization through Commissioning.

Project Design Expertise: Paint Process Systems Engineering, Industrial Ventilation, Process Ovens, Powder applications Equipment for products ranging from Golf Balls to Aircraft.

Supply chain Expertise: Developed supply chains that reduced costs and increase revenue streams through strategic partnering with Suppliers, Vendors, and Distributors, creating partnerships teaming toward common goals for excellence in quality and service.

professional experience

Principle / Project Manager

FINISHING EQUIPMENT CONSTRUCTORS Cedar Hill, TX 8/2015 to Present

Directed Construction trade contractors’ work of Plumbers, Mechanical and Electrical Contractors contributing to the installation of Industrial finishing equipment and interfacing with the plant’s building construction.

Defined and supervised Client’s Sheet Metal Fabrication, Welding & Assembly Personnel providing in house production of components required for equipment components.

Contract position to assemble two Finishing Lines valued at 2MM.

Items were reworked as needed by the project parameters new components designed fabricated with the customer’s equipment and tooling from sheet steel and structural steel to facilitate a working system.

Analyze equipment and components to evaluate performance in meeting objectives and performed adjustments to insure readiness.

Program Manager, Operations

ZODIAC AEROSPACE, Gainesville, Texas 6/2014 – 7/2015

Recruited following graduation from Northwood University Texas with BBA.

Primary liaison between Integrated Supply Chain and Program Management a Team for tactical planning operational execution and ensuring quality products produced for this aircraft seating manufacturer.

Coordination of efforts of engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, assembly and logistics for the product life cycle from handover from marketing through commissioning of aircraft for retrofit and new aircraft contracts.

Ensured the production readiness for all internal and external departments, teams, leaders and support personnel to effectively provide an exceptional quality product in keeping with FAA Regulations, Boeing and or Air Bus specification, ZSUS standards of performance and the customers’ demands.

Diligently orchestrated the use and control of supplier provided (IFE, Dress, Harnesses, etc.) commodities for inclusion and or use in assembly of components to successfully complete seating assemblies.

Represented the AAL PMO Team at the Directors briefing (GEMBA) each morning to report program status and performed a stand in role for the PMO Senior Managers.

Representing PMO team for the Boeing and Airbus conference daily production readiness teleconference.

Developed dashboard for the collection and presentation of program status which interfaced with the AS400 system and Excel to present data in a simple format reducing development time from hours to minutes and shared this with all members of the OPM team of 30 men and women to aide their effectiveness.

Presented engineering change request to the (CBC) Change Control Board in efforts to facility Lean Manufacturing principles.

Laid off during Mass Reduction in force along with several hundred others.

Principle

FINISHING EQUIPMENT CONSTRUCTORS Cedar Hill, TX August 2005 to June 2014

Monitored and acted on the financial statements, sales and activity reports, and other performance data to measure productivity costs and profitability of the organizations operations and goal achievement and to determine areas needing cost reduction and program improvement.

Accountable for operations and performance of the company, its staff in meeting objectives determining areas of potential cost reduction, program improvement, or policy change.

Develop, present, and respond to requests for proposals for specific customer requirements, including request for proposal responses to industry-specific solutions requirements in accordance with applicable codes or standards

Participate in the development of specifications for equipment, products or substitute materials with the customer to protect the interest known to the customer and appraising known issues for consideration and expansion of the project scope where necessary and profitable.

Confer with Owners, Directors, Managers, technical personnel, contractors, or design professionals to successfully resolve issues in design, facility conditions, change orders, scheduling adjustments to coordinate activities, adding to the contract scope and price where advantageous to the organization

Study specifications, blueprints, to determine construction requirements and plan procedures for construction.

Examine and inspect work progress, equipment, at construction sites to verify safety procedures are followed and to ensure that specifications are met or exceeded within budget while ensuring customer satisfaction.

Establish and implement policies, goals, objectives, and procedures, conferring with board members, organization officials, and staff members as necessary to fulfill establish strategic and functional goals of the company

Created schedules of operations installations of equipment both contracted and ancillary to the project making sure sequence of activity, and assignments for work activities contracted and or subcontracted, based on priority, quantity of work, and capability of organizations involved.

Inspect and monitor work areas, examine tools and equipment, and provide employee safety training to prevent, detect, and correct unsafe conditions or violations of procedures and safety rules. initiate personnel actions, such as hires, promotions, transfers, discharges, or disciplinary measures as needed.

Locate and onboard vendors of materials, equipment or supplies, and interview them to determine product availability and terms of sales or lease.

Project Manager

INDUSTRIAL FINISHING SYSTEMS, LLC Terrell, TX April 2003 to August 2005

Recruited to head the PMO office by the owner of the business to us my vast knowledge of industrial finishing Systems Industry and bring efficiency to system installation efforts.

Managed Planned, organized, and directed the activities concerned with the construction or maintenance of Paint and powder coating facilities, and the systems related to the finishing equipment contracted, including subcontractors hired to complete system installations and commissioning.

Consult with multiple clients, vendors, staff, and management personnel regarding purchases, product and production specifications, manufacturing capabilities, or project status as the customers point of contact following contract date.

Authored contracts and negotiate revisions, changes and additions to agreements with owners, architects, consultants, clients, suppliers, vendors and subcontractors.

Select, contract, and oversee staff and subcontract teams completing specific pieces of the finishing system, such as HVAC systems, cooling towers, supply & interconnecting plumbing, electrical power, controls High/ low voltage, paint distribution pumps heaters totes piping, dry and cure ovens, booths, cooling tunnels, sanding operation enclosure, conveyor system, pollution abatement equipment, Painting Robotics equipment, and commissioning engineering subcontractors.

Navistar / International Truck Finishing line installation management from beginning through Commissioning for Spray booths, Sanding Prep booths, Cure Ovens, Conveyors, Air Conditioning and Exhaust air oxidizers.

Multiple improvements to the Chassis Line improving operational functions and efficiency.

Led internal staff on design of flash tunnel equipment for Delphi Mexico plant.

Created estimates for production costs, developing continuous improvement methods for cost savings in manufacturing systems and work cells for weld shop, sheet metal, assembly and logistics.

Inspect or review projects to monitor compliance with environmental regulations. NFPA, NEC, OSHA, ANSI, ASTM, AISC, BOCA, FAR as applicable by the authority having jurisdiction.

Engineering Manager / Special Projects Manager

COL-MET SPRAY BOOTHS, LLC. Garland, TX March 1997 to August 2002

Leading member of the Start-Up Team the supplying engineering foundation for its core products of Spray Booths leading to positioning the organization as second largest spray booth manufacturer in the United States.

Orchestrated the development of a total of six core products, working with cross functional teams on, strategic marketing, supply chain design, procurement systems, finance, manufacturing, engineering, production installation, commissioning and service personnel, transforming a small sheet metal division of the parent company historically operating at a loss to a profitable position in 6 months requiring expansion to its own facility in one year and an additional facility in three.

Designed products developing standardizations of products for offering based on manufacturability and profit potential for the industrial ventilation, environmental containment and safety needs of the painting and powder coating application operations of Industrial Finishing, Automotive Truck & Equipment refinishing business segment. Building on these capabilities designed full lines of Drying and Curing oven and equipment. Adding finally the pretreatment coating equipment by developing designs for process piping open boilers and enclosures for Parts-Washers product lines.

Developed automated quotation programs within Microsoft Excel reducing quote/estimate preparation time from days to minutes. On entering of the data into a form, costs and BOM’s self-populated in an accurate and consistent manner. Prejudicial manipulations of estimate figures were eliminated and honest negotiation of pricing of the offers was required based on actual cost/margins. Automating the BOM at offer increased the time for negotiation and supply chain planning.

Project management responsibilities included: product design, supply chain definition, supplier partnering, production specification, engineering, production oversight, installation supervision, and commissioning of multiple concurrent contracts. Growing from the company’s inception through consistent development of 20 to 30 projects in the pipeline at any given time values at $5 – $200K per contract.

Negotiated the Conversion of a “no-bid” offer to the first RFQ for a finishing production line for Caterpillar Corp into a $500,000.00 sale of components used for the same project, maintaining strategic marketing strategy and adding Caterpillar’s Paint Finishing Group to our network of equipment offers.

Designed manufacturing equipment and systems from broad definition of the customers’ needs into viable sales of $3,000,000.00 per year of specialized designed units.

Authored systems and controls that provided continuity and sustainability in the design, manufacture and production of the full product line of paint booths and finishing systems offered.

Produced the print ready catalog media for the sale of product lines, including artwork technical literature.

Developed standards for manufacturing and production controls to maintain profitability. Improving production from one unit per day to five units per day during my tenure.

Designed product offerings, in accordance with industry specifications NFPA, NEC, OSHA, ANSI, ASTM, AISC, BOCA, FAR

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Business Administration - Management

Northwood University - Cedar Hill, TX

Software Experience:

Microsoft Suite, Access, Microsoft studio, MAPICS, AS400, Microsoft Project, MS SharePoint.

AutoCAD-2017, Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Solid works, Pro-fold, Primavera, Sure-Track

ADDITIONAL:

New business development – Distribution Systems Sales and support

Marketing strategy implementation and management

Business operations creation and development

Product creation and management from conceptualization through serial production

Authored work instructions (WI)(SOP), engineering design manuals

Accountable as primary customer contact for complex projects / programs

Responsible for ROI on projects to be held to estimated cost projections and profitability

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